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Getting the Internet Up in the Air - 0 views

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    How is it possible to get Internet access on an airplane?
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Spammers Pay Others to Answer Security Tests - 1 views

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    MUMBAI, India - Faced with stricter Internet security measures, some spammers have begun borrowing a page from corporate America's playbook: they are outsourcing.
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EMC's Profit Rises as Executive Sees Rosy Outlook for Corporate Spending - 0 views

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    An executive at EMC, the data storage giant, has offered some of the most positive language to date about the state of corporate spending on technology, saying customers were at last planning for the future rather than just battening down the hatches. And he uttered one of the most beloved phrases in the technology industry vocabulary - "new innovative projects."
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Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    SAN FRANCISCO - This year, Netflix made what looked like a peculiar choice: the DVD-by-mail company decided that over the next two years, it would move most of its Web technology - customer movie queues, search tools and the like - over to the computer servers of one of its chief rivals, Amazon.com.
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How to Fix Your iPhone (the Unauthorized Edition) - 0 views

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    With Apple having sold 50 million iPhones, it was perhaps inevitable that a cottage industry of iPhone repair shops would spring up. The one-year warranty that comes with the iPhone doesn't cover damage unless it is shown to be caused by a manufacturing defect. And using official Apple channels for repairs can get expensive quickly. Screen replacements alone can cost as much as $300, inspiring some iPhone owners to seek out alternative ways to restore their phones' health.
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SAS Seeks to Improve Data Mining of Social Media - 0 views

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    No one doubts that social media - all the stuff on Facebook, Twitter and other online forums - provides a rich lode of user sentiment that companies ought to be able to exploit. And not just to sharpen their marketing, but also to improve their products and services - potentially, the ultimate source of customer views and a crowd-sourced suggestion box.
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For Writers, a Less Lonely Life - 0 views

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    Remember when book writing used to be a solitary experience? If you needed feedback, you'd e-mail (or fax or mail) a few pages to a trusted friend and hope that he or she wouldn't trash your efforts.
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Q.&A.: The Benefits of Blu-ray - 1 views

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    Blu-ray, the high-definition, high-capacity disc format that is replacing DVD has its uses, particularly for watching movies, working with files from an HD camcorder or backing up the computer. But if you decide to get a drive, pay attention to what it promises to actually do.
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Reading and the Web - Texts Without Context - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • AT THE SAME time the Internet’s nurturing of niche cultures is contributing to what Cass Sunstein calls “cyberbalkanization.” Individuals can design feeds and alerts from their favorite Web sites so that they get only the news they want, and with more and more opinion sites and specialized sites, it becomes easier and easier, as Mr. Sunstein observes in his 2009 book “Going to Extremes,” for people “to avoid general-interest newspapers and magazines and to make choices that reflect their own predispositions.”
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      I really reject what Cass Sunstein is saying here. He is lamenting that people are finding outlets of news and opinion that they like or agree with. Just because these outlets are not to his liking or approval, he labels them as extreme and suggests that we use sources that he approves of. This is the mentality of censureship and is contrary to free speech. It treats people like we are too ingnorant to make decisions about ascertaining news and opinion.
  • All too often, however, the recycling and cut-and-paste esthetic has resulted in tired imitations; cheap, lazy re-dos; or works of “appropriation” designed to generate controversy
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      Digital media has definitely created more opportunity for plagiarism, and re-use of work without permission. This loss of control over creative work has irked many creators because they find that there work is presented in wasy that they never intended. I remember reading an article a month or so ago saying that Pink Floyd had sued their record label for allowing their Dark Side of the Moon album to be sold on iTunes as individual songs. Floyd did not like that because all of the songs on that album seamlessly flow from one to a next, so selling individual songs would completely lose that.
  • “Reading in the traditional open-ended sense is not what most of us, whatever our age and level of computer literacy, do on the Internet,” the scholar Susan Jacoby writes in “The Age of American Unreason.” “What we are engaged in — like birds of prey looking for their next meal — is a process of swooping around with an eye out for certain kinds of information.”
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      That is very true, I notice that when I surf the web for news or research I rarely read the entire article. Only after I narrow down the results to what I think is most relevant will I really read the whole piece.
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  • which suggests that increased Internet use is rewiring our brains, impairing our ability to think deeply and creatively even as it improves our ability to multitask.
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      I think that this should be interpeted as a call for moderation in activity. There are both pros and cons to traditional books and digital media, and probably it is best to become proficient at both.
  • He points out that much of the chatter online today is actually “driven by fan responses to expression that was originally created within the sphere of old media,” which many digerati mock as old-fashioned and passé, and which is now being destroyed by the Internet
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      Interesting point, I have noticed that on sites like YouTube, many users are still devoted fans to older music and movies and this enthusiasm does not seem to be present in newer film/music.
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Scan This Book! - New York Times - 0 views

  • At the same time, once digitized, books can be unraveled into single pages or be reduced further, into snippets of a page. These snippets will be remixed into reordered books and virtual bookshelves. Just as the music audience now juggles and reorders songs into new albums (or "playlists," as they are called in iTunes), the universal library will encourage the creation of virtual "bookshelves" — a collection of texts, some as short as a paragraph, others as long as entire books, that form a library shelf's worth of specialized information. And as with music playlists, once created, these "bookshelves" will be published and swapped in the public commons.
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      This passage raises the concerns about retaining the integrity of books and other intellectual works. The reduction of an author's works into "snippets" that can be arranged at will by web users opens doors to taking the work out of context. Also, the author may find that most of their work is not presented in the fashion that they intended and that many people who would have otherwise read the entire work have simply relied on selected remixes of the texts.
  • On this screen, now visible to one billion people on earth, the technology of search will transform isolated books into the universal library of all human knowledge.
  • (This is to be expected. The fact is, entire industries and the fortunes of those working in them are threatened with demise. Newspapers and magazines, Hollywood, record labels, broadcasters and many hard-working and wonderful creative people in those fields have to change the model of how they earn money. Not all will make it.)
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      It is certainly true that media and publishers will need to change their business model to accomodate the digital age. Even Kevin Kelly admits here that "not all will make it", and most won't if copyrights do not allow authors to have basic controll of how their content is accessed and distributed.
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Journalists' E-Mails Hacked in China - 0 views

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    BEIJING - In what appeared to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen rights advocates, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders. A Chinese human rights organization also said that hackers had disabled its Web site for five days in a row.
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The Robots Among Us - 0 views

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    I've always wanted a robot. I often fantasized as a child about my own personal robot that could carry my backpack to school for me or stay up late and help me with my homework. Robots haven't advanced that far - yet. But they still can do amazing things. Below, you can see a selection of robots currently "in the wild" or in research labs. There's everything from the Okonomiyaki robot, which makes pancakes, to everyday robots that build cars or help the military on the battlefield.
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Google Alerts Gmail Users to Suspicious Logins - 0 views

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    Google has introduced a new security feature that alerts Gmail users whose e-mail accounts may have been broken into by a malicious intruder and helps them regain full control.
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Bring-Your-Own-Storage Networking - 1 views

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    Chances are you have a few USB thumb drives floating around your house; it's also very likely that you use a USB external hard drive for backing up PCs or expanding your storage capacity. Iomega has created an inexpensive way to wirelessly share all these USB drives and create a network-attached storage device without investing a lot of time and money.
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G.M. Tinkers With Augmented Reality System for Cars - 0 views

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    The research and development labs of General Motors have been working closely with several universities, including Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California, to build an augmented reality system that could assist motorists in difficult driving situations.
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Most Online News Readers Use 5 Sites or Fewer, Study Says - 1 views

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    The audience for news online tends not to stick to a single site - that much has been known for years. But a new study says that even with a vast array of digital choices, "promiscuous" news consumption goes only so far.
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Viacom and Hulu Part Ways - 0 views

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    In the first major fracture between television show owners and the wildly popular Hulu.com, Viacom will remove "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," "The Colbert Report" and other Comedy Central programs from the video site next week
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Pentax Toughens Its Rugged Camera - 0 views

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    Once again, Pentax demonstrates a new focus on design with an update to its line of rugged cameras. The new $330 Optio W90 looks like it belongs on a mountainside (thanks to its included carabiner) and feels more solidly built than its predecessor, the Optio W80.
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New Complaints Filed Against Google in Europe - 0 views

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    BRUSSELS - Facing a new wave of antitrust complaints in Europe, Google stood firm Wednesday, saying it would not offer concessions to companies that have accused the Internet giant of abusing its market power in online search and advertising.
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